Give us your views on DSR and storage
The Energyst needs end user views on battery storage and demand-side response to inform its annual DSR Report.
The aim is to provide a snapshot...
Thrive and Aura launch funded battery storage joint venture, target I&C firms
Renewables investor Thrive has launched a joint venture with developer Aura Power that aims to deploy and operate 40MW of behind-the-meter battery storage at...
Webinar: How to Earn Revenue from Stored Power in UPS Systems and Generators for...
Vertiv invites Energyst readers - particularly power intensive users - to learn how to monetise UPS within flexibility markets via a free webinar at...
ESB buys 7MWh battery storage site from Anesco as developer shifts model
Irish utility ESB has acquired a 7MWh battery storage facility from Anesco.
The Mill Farm development in Lincolnshire went live in April.
“The site will enable...
WPD expands DSR programme, launches tenders across Midlands and South West
Western Power Distribution is launching a tender for more demand-side response (DSR) to help balance its networks.
The company began a flexibility trial in the...
Anesco’s Steve Shine: Battery storage isn’t ‘merchant risk’, it’s just merchant
Anesco plans to keep more of its battery assets to fund new projects “because the returns we are seeing are good”, according to executive chairman...
Ørsted and Open Energi team up to unlock flex at Aggregate Industries
A demand-side response collaboration between Open Energi and Ørsted is unlocking diversified revenues for Aggregate Industries - and asset optimisation is predicted to cut...
Liquid air energy storage firm plans big Capacity Market bid
Highview Power, the firm pioneering liquid air energy storage (LAES), hopes to announce a 50MW/200MWh unit in the UK later this year and plans...
Forget small scale DSR until we get ‘big flex’ right, says Kiwi Power boss
Kiwi Power boss Yoav Zingher has cautioned the flexibility industry against trying to run before it can walk.
Speaking at the 2018 Power Responsive conference,...
National Grid ‘hits DSR target two years early’, works to open ‘ultimate balancing market’
National Grid believes over 50% of balancing services came from demand-side providers last month. If that trend continues, the System Operator (SO) will have...
Opinion: How much is National Grid really buying from the demand side?
Kiwi Power's head of public affairs and UK programme manager, Jonathan Ainley, applauds National Grid's progress in bringing forward demand-side response, but says there...
Fossil EVolution: BP to buy Chargemaster
BP is to buy EV charging network Chargemaster and plans to rollout rapid charging stations at its forecourts and elsewhere across the UK.
The firm...
Total seeks demand-side response partner
The firm’s new director of major business, Mark Rose, told The Energyst that grid services and flexibility will form a key aspect of integrated...
Total Gas & Power: Focused on what you need
Tim McManan-Smith fires some questions about the changing nature of energy market, and how customers should fashion their approach to it, at Total Gas...
National Grid consults staff on restructure
National Grid has begun consulting staff about an organisational restructure.
The firm said no decisions have yet been made, but has not ruled out job...
What’s the future of energy (and the energy of the future)?
The world of energy is changing at an ever-faster rate. In April 2018, the UK went five days without any coal-generated electricity for the...
Ofgem makes capacity market rule changes to reduce test burden, boost secondary trading
Ofgem has agreed a number of changes to the Capacity Market ahead of a major review of the policy later this year.
The regulator will...
Gridbeyond chief: Triad avoidance may go by 2022, but flexible firms will only gain
Triad avoidance may cease to exist by 2022, according to Gridbeyond chief executive Michael Phelan.
The head of the flexibility provider, formerly known as Endeco,...
Upside Energy: Small scale DSR is actually easier than large scale
Upside Energy founder and chief scientist, Graham Oakes, offers a counter argument to recent suggestions by Kiwi Power CEO, Yoav Zingher, that the industry...
UK Power Reserve tenders for 200MW of recips
UK Power Reserve is tendering for 200MW of gas reciprocating engines to deliver the Capacity Market agreements it was awarded in last February's auction.
The...